Could Dick Durbin Just Hurry Up and Go Away?

Scott McKay, American Spectator

It turns out Durbin was first elected to the Senate in 1996, having spent 14 years as a

congressman prior to that. He’s leaving the Senate after next year’s election cycle, finally giving us a respite from his style of Chicago machine governance after 44 years. Nobody should be a princeling on Capitol Hill for 44 years. It’s impossible to calculate the psychic and moral damage that much time in power will do to a person. And it’s done plenty to Durbin. Most of the things coming out of Dick Durbin’s flytrap are ridiculous.